St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-07
And Demonstrate to Tory En-
gland That Coercion is a
Dismal Failure.
Evictions to Be Temporarily
Suspended Because Of
Their Brutality.
Schemes Of African Conquest
1.-The Crown Prince of
Germany's Condition.
BY Cable to the Globe.

BY Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, ,Oct.6.-The action of the court
in diSmiSsing the summonses against
Lord Mayor Sullivan and Mr.. O'Brien
after the short session of buster on the
part of the Dublin officials brings the
bungling methods of the government to
climax and hastens the time when
English disgust at the lack of tact and
ability of the Tory ministry to deal with
the question of the hour will so forcibly
manifest Itself as to drive the poor blind
blundererS from power. 1t is now
patent to everybody that to govern Ire
land by means of the coercion laws
is utterly impossible and to
no one is this fact more
plainly apparent than to the ministers
themselves. Bad as these laws were,
had the government been content to en-
force them fairly and only when their
application was necessary, they might
have found abundant support in Eng
land and little violent opposition in
Ireland, but the power the new statutes
conferred Oh the Irish officials, from the
Dublin executive down to the most re-
Gently appointed constableS, has in
every case
BEEN ABUSED
and there is no doubt that at least one
third of the members of the house of
commons who voted for the passage of
the crimes bill are now ashamed of hav-
ing done SO. Probably no one feels
more keenly the failure of the
court to convict Messrs. Sullivan
and O'Brien than does Mr.. Balfour.
Mr.. o'Brien's release at Mitchelstown
pending his appeal, was severe blow
to the pride OF the Irish secretary, and
the subsequent speeches and triumphal
progress of Mr.. O'Brien have still fur
ther exasperated him. il Mr.. O'Brien
could have been convicted to-day he
would have been sent to Jail immedi-
ately and kept there till the period of
his appeal had expired, when his Origi-
nal sentence would go into effect. As
it is now, it is extremely unlikely that
the sentence imposed 0nUnited1reland'S S
editor will ever be carried out, and MI.
Balfeur will have to look further for
means by which to obtain his revenge
for the uncomplimentary things his po-
litical enemy has said of him.
AFRICAN CONQUEST.
The Paris Debat's assertion that
France has no desire to occupy any part
of Morocco is entirely unofficial, and
therefore has no weight with the powers
that believe the French republic is con-
templating the very action the news
paper disavOws in her behalf. Spain
strongly suspects that France is medi-
tating a coup on the frontier of Morocco,
and is in consequence making prepara-
tiOnS to prevent such movement. The
factfhat the French government has al
tered a Semi-otficial denial of the state
ment that French troops are being
massed on the Algerian frontier sug-
gests to Spain the possibility, at least,
that such action is being taken. and the
likelihood that trouble will ensue as the
outcome of the new phases of the politi-
cal situation in Morocco is growing
stronger daily.
THE CROWN PRINCE.
The fact of the Crown Prince Freder-
ick William going to Lake Maggiore is
taken as confirmation of the widespread
German belief that he is not only suf-
fering from general debility, but that his
throat trouble, never under the control
of his English physician, is much worse
than it has been at any time since the
patient forsoOk his regular doctors for
the London specialist. German phySi-
clans, not only those who formerly at
tended the prince, but other equally
| skilled practitioners, have never for a
moment ceased to diStruSt DR.. McKen-
zie'S diagnosis of the case, and are now
more than ever fearful that he has been
over-confident and permitted his pro-
fessional pride to impair his Judgment.
EvICTIoNS SUSPENDED.
The government has ordered the
suspension of the Gweedore evictions in
consequence of the discovery that Eng
lish public opinion is decidedly opposed
to the manner in which they have been
conducted. This feeling has been
greatly strengthened by the fact that
the police so unhesitatingly threw down
their rifles, and declared that they would
take no further part in work of such un-
necessarily brutal nature, and the gov
ernment besides wishing to avoid at
tempting to stem to a strong current of
popular opinion because fearful that the
detection in the ranks of the police
might spread toproportions beyond coll
troll. The days of brutal evictions in
Ireland would seem to be drawing very
near to an end.